Confinement
[ kən'fainmənt ]
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n. 监禁，关押;分娩，生产;限制，约束;
📝 例句
her confinement to a wheelchair
半步离不开轮椅对她的束缚
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📖 牛津释义
confinement
n
1 [U] being confined; imprisonment 限制; 监禁
to be placed in confinement, ie in a prison, mental hospital, etc 被监禁, 禁闭（坐牢、 被关进精神病院里等）
The prisoner was sentenced to three months' solitary confinement, ie kept apart from other prisoners. 那犯人被判处单独监禁三个月（与其他犯人隔离）.
2
(a) [U] time during which a baby is being born 分娩期
Her confinement was approaching. 她的分娩期临近了.
(b) [C] instance of this; birth 分娩; 生育
The doctor has been called to a home confinement, ie a birth taking place at the mother's home rather than in hospital. 那医生被请到产妇家里接生.
🔁 扩展释义
*[kәn'fainmәnt]n. 限制, 被禁闭, 分娩【医】 分娩, 生产
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This is the big moment.
这可是关键时刻。
To know how to wait is the great secret of success.
懂得如何等待是成功的秘诀。
Fred Pearson was walking through the university town of Oxford one morning in 1961.
1961年的某个早上，弗雷德·皮尔逊正步行通过牛津大学城。